What was the name for the agency founded in the lower east side of new york in 1893?

Collection Description 
1873-1998. 63 linear feet

Records include: Board of Trustees minutes, correspondence, brochures, reports, administrative files, program files, club publications and scrapbooks, Art School brochures and publications, alumni materials, clippings, books, photographs, audiotapes, videos, and a collection of early documents dating from the founding of the Alliance.

Early Records
The Educational Alliance maintains the original Board of Trustees minutes, by-laws, annual reports and other documents pertaining to the founding of the Alliance, as well as documenting its programs and activities. These include:

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes (1879-1890; 1899-1986)
Bound volumes of the original minutes and a copy of the commercial microfiche edition of the minutes (Minutes of the Educational Alliance, 1879-1980). These include all extant minutes for the board in this period as well as some minutes from the following committees: Young People's Branch; Religious Work; House; Education; Social Work.

Annual Reports (1893-1916)
Annual reports in two bound volumes.

Register of Pupils (1900-1905)                                   One bound volume.

Documents (ca. 1873-1961)
Documents pertaining to the formation of the Alliance and the acquisition of funds and properties. The documents include deeds, bonds, leases, mortgages, building plans, and some correspondence. Additional material includes early bulletins from the 1890s listing Alliance activities, a treasurer's account for 1892, a 1907 invitation for a theater program listing Samuel L. Clemens as the host, and a scrapbook of estate bequests to the Educational Alliance, 1924-1961.

Clubs                                                                                
Early material from some of the Alliances clubs and programs include scrapbooks and newsletters from the Pershing Club dating from the 1920s. The Pershing Club, active from 1917 to 1927, sponsored many activities including sports, debating and the production of their newsletter "The Pershing Observer". The collection also includes one issue of "Oracle of Honor" (1920), a publication of the Honor Club.

Programs, Social Services (1950-1998)
Material from this period includes studies, publications, brochures, and correspondence documenting the Alliance's programs and directives. They highlight initiatives undertaken by the Alliance including the move toward the practice of "Group Work", and the change to social service programs staffed by trained professionals. Among these were programs for school dropouts, street people, homeless and the mentally ill. The staff of the Educational Alliance including Louis Berkowitz, Robert Meltzer, and Gertrude Wilson documented the programs in published articles and studies.

Additionally, printed matter and publications in the files describe specific programs, including: Head Start, Alliance camps, drug treatment programs at Pride Site, Project Contact to combat delinquency and drug abuse, Project ORE for isolated or homeless older Jewish adults, SRO, providing housing for the elderly, and the first Lower East Side Jewish festival, held in 1976 under the leadership of the Educational Alliance.

Anniversaries and Events
Files contain correspondence, clippings, brochures, anniversary books, and exhibit catalogs. They include Centennial Committee correspondence (1988-1990), correspondence and information pertaining to Adam Bellow's history of the Educational Alliance (The Educational Alliance, A Centennial Celebration) published in 1990, and a scrapbook and photographs for the 1990 Jewish Museum exhibit: "Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945 - A Tribute to the Educational Alliance Art School".

Administrative Records (1984-1998)
These include John Hoover, (Assistant Executive Director for Finance and Administration) correspondence, 1995-1998, and Dan Morris (Associate Executive Director) files 1984-1991. These administrative records from the 1980s and 1990s contain correspondence, memos, budgets, reports, requests for proposals, and brochures, including information on the Alliance's ongoing programs (camps, art school, Project Contact, Pride Site, Head Start, Project ORE). They also reflect the Alliance's participation in federal and state funded programs for alcohol and substance abuse, domestic abuse, and participation in the United States Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program.

Audio and Visual Materials
The visual materials include photographs, slides, lantern slides, and videotapes spanning the years 1916 to the 1990s. Audio materials include cassettes, records, and reel to reel tapes.

Photographs and Slides
The Alliance maintains an alphabetical photo file including subject headings for Alumni, Art School, Basketeers, Board of Trustees, Celebrations, Eddie Cantor, Gym Programs, Lower East Side, Staff, and Steel Drum Bands. In addition, there are several hundred unsorted slides and photographs (ca. 1950s-1990s) of summer camps for both children and adults including images from Camp Leah, Camp Salomon, and Camp Cummings. Additional slides include images of Project Contact and its component programs, and images from the Art School.

Glass lantern slides
Approximately 400 slides from the Beseler Lantern Slide Co., ca. 1920s.
These slides were most likely used by the Alliance's Concert and Lecture Department, which offered educational programs every night of the week. Slide subjects include the American flag, government, development of the United States, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, natural resources and transportation.

Videos
Approximately 40 videos (many unidentified) include some labeled: "Head Start - Chinese Church, 1992", and "Client interviews 1992".

Audio
Among the identified audio materials are the following titles: "Alumni Association"; "Dr. Berkowitz and Abraham Lurie"; "Dedication tape 1972"; "Steel Band School" and "The Eddie Cantor Story".

Additional Collections

Records of the Emanu-El Brotherhood (1903-1959); 1 linear foot
The Alliance also holds records of the Emanu-El Brotherhood, a Jewish social settlement agency founded in 1903, and incorporated in 1907. In 1905 the Emanu-El Brotherhood opened a building at 316 East 5th Street, and in 1910 they moved to 309-311 East 6th Street. The Brotherhood was sponsored by Temple Emanu-El (New York) and was initially led by Dr. Joseph Silverman. The records document the founding and programs of the Emanu-El Brotherhood including minutes (1903-1916), programs, menus from fundraising events, clippings, speeches and photographs.

The Emanu-El Brotherhood and the Educational Alliance discussed cooperative programs in the period before World War I - when the Educational Alliance closed its Branch A building in 1913, its students used space in the Emanu-El Brotherhood building for one year - but no further joint efforts were undertaken. In the 1960s, the Brotherhood moved to the Emanu-El midtown Y at 344 East 14th Street. In 1996, at the request of the UJA, the Educational Alliance took charge of the Emanuel YM-YWHA, and after renovation, re-opened the facility as the 14th Street Y of the Educational Alliance.

American nursing organization

Region served

Staff

Founded in 1893 by nursing pioneer Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster, VNS Health is one of the largest not-for-profit home- and community-based health care organizations in the United States, serving the five boroughs of New York City; Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties; and parts of upstate New York.

Background

Main article: Henry Street Settlement

Lillian Wald, the founder of public health nursing, began her mission on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the time, this was the most densely populated area in the world.[1][2][3] In 1893 Wald founded the Nurses' Settlement, which later changed its name to the Henry Street Settlement. In 1895, banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff purchased the Federal style townhouse at 265 Henry Street for the new organization to use, and expansion continued to adjacent buildings over the next few years.[4][5] Henry Street Settlement funded the first nurse in the New York City public schools—an innovation that led to the creation of a citywide public school nurse program, the first in the world. By 1940, nearly 300 visiting nurses were providing medical care throughout New York City.[6] Henry Street Settlement's nurse service became the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.[7] On May 18, 2022, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York rebranded to VNS Health.

Corporate information

Staff

The VNS Health workforce[8] consists of licensed practical and registered nurses; physical, occupational, and speech-language therapists; social workers; home health aides and home attendants, physicians, registered dietitians, and psychologists.

VNS Health has received more than 90 national and regional awards[citation needed] from the American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Times Tribute to Nurses, New York University College of Nursing, Home Care Association of New York State, Crain’s New York Business, Public Health Association of New York City, and the national associations of Social Workers, Hispanic Nurses, Chinese American Nurses, among many others.

The current President and CEO of VNS Health is Dan Savitt.

Research center

The company researches to increase the evidence base for health care at home, and established the VNS Health Center for Home Care Policy & Research in 1993.[9] Its IT innovations have been the subject of research[10]

Advocacy

VNS Health acts as a liaison between patient and government bodies such as the state and federal legislatures, as well as regulatory bodies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the New York State Department of Health and the Department of Insurance.[citation needed]

Controversy

The company paid $35 million to the federal Medicaid program in order to settle a civil suit alleging it enrolled ineligible people into Medicaid plans,[11] and is currently defending allegations it claimed Medicaid and Medicare income for the care ordered by doctors but never delivered.[12][13][14]

See also

• Visiting Nurse Association

References

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2. ^ "History - Visiting Nurse Service of New York".
3. ^ "The Incredible Shrinking CIO". CIO. 77 (2). 15 Oct 2003.
4. ^ "Our History". Henry Street Settlement. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
5. ^ Eisenstadt, Peter; Moss, Laura-Eve (2005). Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press.
6. ^ "Henry Street Settlement". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
7. ^ Elizabeth Fee and Liping Bu (July 2010). "The Origins of Public Health Nursing: The Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service". American Journal of Public Health. 100 (7): 1206–1207. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.186049. PMC 2882394. PMID 20466947.
8. ^ "How to Control Costs With CMS's Knee Replacement Bundles".
9. ^ "Background". Retrieved March 17, 2016.
10. ^ Rosenfeld, Russell; Ames, S; Roasti, R (12 August 2010). "Using Technology to Enhance the Quality of Home Health Care: Three Case Studies of Health Information Technology Initiatives at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York". Journal for Healthcare Quality. 32 (5): 22–29. doi:10.1111/j.1945-1474.2010.00098.x. PMID 20854356.
11. ^ "Visiting Nurse Services to pay $35M in Medicaid fraud suit".
12. ^ Pamoukaghlian, Veronica. "Visiting Nurse Service of New York Faces Medicare & Medicaid Fraud Suit".
13. ^ Bernstein, Nina (23 September 2016). "Whistle-Blower Suit Accuses Visiting Nurse Service of Fraud" – via NYTimes.com.
14. ^ "Day Centers Sprout Up, Luring Fit Elders and Costing Medicaid". The New York Times. 23 April 2013.

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